Data Science Applied to Wordle?

Mar '24 (edited) • 💬 General

Hey, anyone playing Wordle (NYT puzzle) and applying data science to it? If so, I'd love to hear about your approach. (My current 25-day average is 3.04 and my 100-day average is 3.12.) Anyone better?

For those interested... the puzzle comes with a bot (WordleBot) that shows the data science it uses to solve the puzzle. It scores better than the average human player and you can learn a lot from it, but it's not as clever as it could be.

My bot routinely beats WordleBot. It uses all the knowledge and data science I have available (short of looking up the answers in advance on the web) but I don't know how to formally explain some of the insights it has uncovered. ("Clusters of probability?" Is there such a thing?) I'm wondering if there are experts on this forum with techniques better than mine that would be willing to share.

Attached are my current and best 14-day average scores...

Any puzzle-gamers out there?

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